Transforming Workforce Strategy for a $300B Pennsylvania-based Pharmaceutical Leader

Discover How Draup Enabled AI-Driven Workforce Transformation for a National Healthcare giant

40,000+

Employee Count

$300 Bn

Revenue

Healthcare

Industry

Pennsylvania, US

Headquarters

About the Company

A global healthcare distribution and services enterprise supporting biopharma manufacturers, providers, and patient-care organizations via large-scale logistics, commercialization support, and supply chain operations. Expanding across North America, Europe, and emerging markets, it focuses on resilient supply chains, frontline workforce availability, and scaling digital talent for complex, cross-border operations.

Before Draup

1

Fragmented View of Frontline Talent Supply

Limited visibility into the size, maturity, and growth of frontline workforce pools across Turkey, the UK, and the U.S., especially in logistics and warehouse roles.

2

Difficulty Prioritizing Future Global Hub Locations

Lacked a unified comparison of talent depth, costs, and hiring competitiveness across candidate cities like Pune, Philadelphia, Kuala Lumpur, Dallas, and Vilnius.

3

No Standardized Demand–Supply Forecasting

Widening gaps in supply chain and automation talent without a clear model to anticipate regional shortages.

4

Inconsistent Competitor & Ecosystem Insight

Uneven visibility into peer practices, compensation, retention, and university pipelines hindered benchmarking in frontline-heavy markets.

The Core Challenges

Rapid logistics and e-commerce growth is widening demand – supply gaps - projected shortfalls reach 3.75% in Turkey (by 2030), 17.9% in Birmingham, and 52% in Cincinnati, straining hiring and continuity plans.

Variability in experience mix, cost structures, English proficiency, and gender diversity makes it difficult to design scalable, cost-effective global hiring strategies.

Employers like Amazon, DHL, FedEx, Deutsche Post, Evri, and UPS offer strong pay and structured benefits, demanding deeper benchmarking to attract and retain talent.

Data on Turkey’s 1.1M frontline workforce, West Midlands’ 16,000+ supply-chain graduates, and Cincinnati’s university partnerships wasn’t integrated, limiting long-term pipeline planning.

The Solution

Supply Chain Supervisor

PROFILE

LOCATION ANALYSIS

TALENT MARKET INSIGHTS

CAREER PATHS

DATA INTEGRATION

TECH STACK

AI-Driven Workforce Intelligence across Turkey, U.K. & U.S.

Integrated views of installed talent, experience mix, gender diversity, migration, and demand cycles across Turkey, Birmingham, and Cincinnati pinpointing where shortages would hit and how to stage proactive hiring.

Location Prioritization & Hiring Benchmarking

A multi-market decision model compared Pune, Kuala Lumpur, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Vilnius on hiring difficulty, talent depth, supply-demand balance, and growth producing data-backed recommendations for scaling digital and enterprise teams.

Supply chain & automation engineering deep-dive

Built job-family taxonomies, demand supply forecasts, peer benchmarks, and compensation models for hubs like Birmingham and Cincinnati; highlighted high-demand roles

Academic pipeline & early-career strategy

Mapped university ecosystems Turkey’s 1.15M graduates, West Midlands’ 72K, and Cincinnati’s 38K to target vocational programs, supply-chain majors, and high-engagement employers, strengthening long-term pipeline planning.

Outcome

Unified global view

Integrated frontline & supply-chain insights across Turkey, the UK, and the U.S., enabling strategic workforce planning at scale.

Location prioritization

Identified the most favorable cities to scale digital, enterprise architecture, and program management roles.

Stronger competitiveness

Benchmarking vs. Amazon, DHL, FedEx, UPS, and Deutsche Post informed compensation and retention strategies.

Early-career pipeline

Standardized university insights across Turkey, West Midlands, and Greater Cincinnati to expand access and reduce bottlenecks. Midlands, and Greater Cincinnati, expanding access and reducing sourcing bottlenecks.

Powered by unparalleled global labor & market data

19K+

Skills

850M+

Professionals

5700+

Locations

1.6M+

Peer Group Companies

1B+

Job Descriptions

4M+

Career Paths

Data Trust & Methodology at Draup

Draup uses a structured methodology to reduce inaccuracies and prevent misleading information, with a focus on transparency and responsible data practices.

1

Data Transparency and Coverage

Draup sources data from diverse, vetted global inputs including public datasets, labor information, professional ecosystems, and industry research. Coverage varies by region and role, and we supplement limited areas with alternative sources and analyst-led modeling.

2

Profiles Behind the Numbers

All aggregate insights related to buyers, roles, skills, and locations are grounded in structured, anonymized human and organizational profiles rather than pure extrapolation. This ensures context, reliability, and protection of personal identities.

3

Data Hygiene and Integrity

We maintain a clean, accurate data environment by removing duplicates, outdated entities, and invalid records. Automated checks powered by ML models and analyst reviews work together to ensure clarity and accuracy for every entity, such as buyer, role, skill, technology, or company. Learn more

4

AI Governance and Bias Mitigation

Our governance framework combines automated evaluations with Human-in-the-Loop reviews. We use statistical checks, audits, and cross-source comparisons to reduce demographic and structural bias before insights reach the platform.

5

Compensation Guardrails

Compensation insights use blended, directional inputs such as aggregated ranges, benchmarks, modeled distributions, and market signals. We distinguish clearly between modeled and reported data and apply guardrails to prevent over-interpretation.

6

Hourly and Frontline Workforce Coverage

For hourly, frontline, and blue-collar roles where digital visibility is limited, we incorporate government datasets, localized labor information, and specialized partners to build a more complete and balanced view of workforce supply and demand.